Another leading expert on forgiveness, Robert Enright, Ph.D, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness, defines the practice by three factors. The first factor is moral virtue. “Moral virtues deal with goodness toward others,” he says, adding that this is not contingent upon one specific religious belief, though it is part of many religions, including Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.
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